A judge holds an important position during a jury trial. In a context that is typically unfamiliar and unknown to jurors, the judge regularly holds the highest amount of respect and is thought to be the most just, fair, ...

This dissertation examined the social and organizational implications of data-intensive transformations in healthcare through studying digital health and processes of informationalization in the U.S. and India. These ...

This dissertation tests whether the difference in numbers of civic digital campaigns across countries, normalized by population and number of internet users, is explained by a multi-theoretical perspective that integrates ...

Because of demographic shifts in church attendance over recent decades, rising secularism, and the influence of other world religions, religious leaders are engaging more frequently in discussions about future directions ...

Latinos have recently become the largest minority group in the United States, and their growing presence is perceived as both a threat and an opportunity. The Latina body acts as a site where discourses about Latinos as a ...

A contemporary controversy in the United States over nuclear waste concerns the 2001 decision to site a national high-level nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain in Nevada. This dissertation is a rhetorical criticism, ...

To better understand how troubled teens perceive their parents' communicative behavior, 77 interviews with teens were analyzed. All of the teens met criteria for being at risk for suicide and all identified conflict with ...

In this paper, I offer Holographic Methodology as a new approach for identifying the largely unexplored phenomenon of overlapping speech communities. Based conceptually on recent technological advances in holography, ...

Prior to the explosion in the number of global communication links in the 20th century, nation-states were the primary international communicators. However, with these new developments, groups both larger and smaller than ...

This dissertation examined the relationship between the press and the government, and what effect competition between the two institutions has on trust in government and the news media. To do so, it combined a content ...

This study explores cognitive processes involved in cultivation by examining recall and meaning of visual images in local television crime news and their relation to concern about crime. Data were gathered through a content ...

This dissertation examines the media's influence in developments surrounding the implementation of the new Scottish parliament and executive in 1999. Focusing on the central role of the Scottish press, it analyzes the ...

Newspapers, radio stations, and television stations are balancing the demands of a legacy product with the demands of putting material on the Web. Today information can be conveyed in multiple content forms--text, images, ...

In this dissertation, I set out to build our understanding of how Latino immigrants learn to participate in and talk about politics in the United States. First, I develop a framework for analyzing political discussion from ...

Within rhetorical studies, the last decade and a half has witnessed a substantial resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis. This thesis situates the resurgence of psychoanalysis within the broader context of ...

Despite their potential democratic value, public meetings between citizens and officeholders are poorly understood sites of political participation and community planning. Although there has been a recent rise in scholarly ...

This project is comprised of oral history interviews from the Quevedo-Bedoya family. The themes explored in these interviews include migration, enculturation, Indigenous identity and cultural perseverance.

This dissertation examines the local, situated speech within the Eloqi community of practice. Eloqi is a pseudonym for an organization that built an online, voice-enabled, interactive learning platform connecting English ...

This study investigates relational turning point events and their outcomes reported to occur by students in college teacher-student relationships. Six hundred and forty college students were asked if they could identify a ...